The Minds of Gods : New Horizons in the Naturalistic Study of Religion

Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved? Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species.

Author: Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Theiss Bendixen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date: Aug 22, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1350265748

ISBN-13: 9781350265745